🥇 BANNER CLOVIS! My Oldest Find EVER!

[oxbowbarefoot]

Two days later and I'm still just as giddy as when I found this.

Monday after work I decided to take a little drive down to Massachusetts to a colonial farm site along the Connecticut River where I have had some luck with my detector. After swinging the coil for a while in a lower field and only turing up a few flat buttons, I decided to try my luck in the upper field which had recently been turned over. The soil was really dry and the dust was awful. Disgruntled, I figured I would do one more pass hoping to dig at least one good keeper for the day. I always look down when I'm detecting, so its not uncommon for me to find the occasional arrowhead or flake, but what I saw laying on the ground shocked me. Staring up from the dusty earth was the most perfect point I had ever seen. I just about through my detector and shovel in excitement. I didn't even think to take an in-situ picture, I just picked it up and kept saying "oh my god, oh my god." In my hand I held my very first Paleo point, this wonderfully fluted Clovis! The point is 4 1/8" long, 1 1/2" wide. I can't wait to get back there and search for more!

 

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[Evolution]

Phenomenal find! Great job keeping your eyes peeled. Would have been a shame to walk over that beauty. I was digging a high signal last year that ended up being a small picture frame and pulled a Native American artifact out of the dirt while I was digging. Just a complete coincidence find. Looked like a less refined version of your artifact. A few Tnet members suggested it was a Clovis preform. Congrats on making the banner.

 

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[oxbowbarefoot]

Thank you for all the comments and banner votes!

 

[Dirtwisher]

So glad you posted this in both forums. I would never have seen it if it weren't in this one. Gorgeous.

 

[Scrappy]

That's the fastest I've ever seen a banner go up! Congrats dude

 

[plymouthian12]

Absolutely gorgeous congrats

 

[Tnmountains]

Just got in from class and see that you made the banner. Congratulations sir.

That is one of the oldest made by man artifact that you can find in the USA. It makes everything else look like yesterday. Paleo when man hunted the wholly mammoths, mastadons and saber tooth tigers in Vermont!
10,000 to what 13,000 years old.......? I like that you had your detector with you when you found it
Well you can tell I was excited to see such a nice specimen.

 

[DFW_THer]

Holy wow.... Stunning. Speechless.

 

[NEPADIGGER7]

ok so my first comment was ok...but i was ignorant to the fact of what this really was...after doing some research thats amazing and with the shape of it and how perfect it is...its something really special and a very fine example of a clovis point!!! amazing find!

 

[Isaac]

AMAZING!!!! Oh my gosh, it's in perfect condition too!!! Imagine who used that thousands of years ago! Congratulations!!!!

 

[Jeff H]

Holy *&^%$ OBBF! That thing is beyond AWESOME! Those a RARE anywhere and particularly here in MA. Certainly that is one of the FINEST fluted points that I have seen found in MA. That is museum quality. Huge congrats to you!

 

[Bquamb]

Almost seems impossible after all the time in the world that has passed for something this perfect and hand/rock crafted to still exist in this condition. it looks still like was crafted yesterday. You can see the time and effort that went into this amazing artifact. Good job!
Anybody know a retail price on something like this?

Keep it up!

 

[bill_wabo]

Wonderful shape and what a beauty, for its age. Somebody made this beauty back 13 000 years ago. You have my vote, thanks for showing.

 

[oxbowbarefoot]

It looks like it may be Onondaga Chert. Anyone have any thoughts?

 

[Steve in PA]

Amazing find! How it survived the plow and tractor tires intact for so long is hard to believe. I'm glad you rescued it

 

[terpfan]

Oh, my. You were the first human being to hold that Clovis point for over 13,000 years. Just a staggering thought.

 

[JeffInMass]

Incredible- find of a lifetime! Big time congrats!!

-- Jeff --

 

[joeyfresh]

Oh, my. You were the first human being to hold that Clovis point for over 13,000 years. Just a staggering thought.

Yessir, my thoughts exactly. I love finding points while detecting but that one would have left me speechless. There's a quarry south of me where a lot of Clovis points have been found and I would kill to get in there. Congrats OBBF!

 

[Dust Eater]

 

[Bass]

That's a simply fantastic find. Congratulations

 

[shoague]

That is freaking incredible. I can't stop looking at it! The craftsmanship. The size. Awesome.